CLASSIC BLUE NOTE PLAYERS

We begin our study of Blue Note guitar greats by looking at five classic jazz

Bb phrases starting with a bebop inspired motif in from Grant Green. We continue with a bluesy line in D Minor from Kenny Burrell, followed by a line

Bb taken from the first four bars of a blues in from Tal Farlow. As always, make a point to mentally connect the chosen melody notes with the underlying

bharmony, as playing in this style is so often arpeggio-based, rather than relying solely on scales. That said, the following Pat Martino line displays what phrases based off modes have to offer, in this case D Dorian (D-E-F-G-A-B-C) with filled-in

Ab, chromatic connections. We end this section with a II-V-I idea in courtesy of the French gypsy virtuoso Biréli Lagrène.